MYSTERIES OF THE PLACEBO

An intriguing result of Dr. Bengston's mice experiments was the fact that his hands-on healing of the target mice was also curing many of the control mice, despite lethal doses of mammary cancer which guaranteed their death in 27 days. When this happens in human experiments, this anomalous effect is blamed on suggestion, i.e. the fact that the human subjects in the control group were having the same response to the target group meant that they were responding to suggestion - mind over matter. However, who would wish to argue that Bengston's control mice were getting better because they "thought" they might be receiving the real drug instead of he placebo? Bengston's original theory of "resonant bonding," as described in Chasing the Cure, answers this challenging question.